Esmeralda Carrillo

Empowered Births at Home - Homebirth Stories

Health EN ↓ 50 episodes

This podcast is a space where women tell us their positive and empowering homebirth stories. We dive deep into the entire journey from how the decision of homebirth was made to choosing a birth team, preparing, and most importantly the birth day! By listening to these stories you will gain knowledge from learning through other women’s experiences. Sharing these stories play a crucial role in my personal mission to normalize homebirth and empower moms. It’s not a trend, it’s a movement to bring birth back home! Learn more by visiting www.birthsathome.com

Author

Esmeralda Carrillo

Category

Health

Podcast website

www.birthsathome.com

Latest episode

Aug 11, 2025

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Episodes

50. How Loss Led to The Decision of Homebirth With Beka 11.08.2025

Beka shares her journey of experiencing a hospital birth with her first, loss and pregnancy after loss, and then two beautiful homebirths. To see more from Beka be sure to follow her https://www.instagram.com/beka.xo.co/ Important Links + Resources✨ Explore The Homebirth Vault – your all-in-one space for homebirth preparation:⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://birthsathome.com/pages/the-homebirth-vault ⁠⁠⁠⁠🎙️ Want to...

49. No Two Births Are Ever The Same, Jenni Shares Her Homebirth Stories 26.05.2025

Jenni shares her two different homebirth stories with us, one being long and hard and ending in a postpartum transfer, the other being short and fast and absolutely redemptive! Important Links + Resources ✨ Explore The Homebirth Vault – your all-in-one space for homebirth preparation:⁠⁠ ⁠https://birthsathome.com/pages/the-homebirth-vault⁠⁠⁠ 🎙️ Want to Share Your Homebirth Story on the Podcast? Fi...

48. When Homebirth Plans Unexpectedly Change to a Hospital Birth with Anastasia 13.05.2025

📌 Anastasia's Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/loambirthservices/ 👇 Important Links + Resources✨ Explore The Homebirth Vault – your all-in-one space for homebirth preparation:⁠⁠ https://birthsathome.com/pages/the-homebirth-vault⁠⁠ 🎙️ Want to Share Your Homebirth Story on the Podcast? Fill out the submission form here:⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://airtable.com/appIpUj5HcMj8xspE/shrugm504HmilhpS9⁠⁠⁠ 🫴 S...

47. Choosing Homebirth for Your First Birth 05.05.2025

Sam talks about her journey of choosing a homebirth with her first birth after experiencing a not so great hospital stay unfortunately due to having a miscarriage with her first pregnancy. We also talk about the importance of the postpartum period and care. 📌 Sam's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/postpartumnurtureco/ 👇 Important Links + Resources ✨ Explore The Homebirth Vault – your all-in...

46. Preparing For Another Homebirth After Experiencing a Previous Homebirth Transfer 14.04.2025

Ali shares her homebirth stories with us and goes into how her first ended up being a postpartum transfer due to a hemorrhage and how she was able to prepare for her second after that experience with her first. 📌 Ali's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alisarberg/ 👇 Important Links + Resources ✨ Explore The Homebirth Vault – your all-in-one space for homebirth preparation:⁠⁠ https://birt...

45. Navigating Birthing Outside of The System in France 07.04.2025

Christina shares about her experience with living in France, a very anti-homebirth country, and wanting to birth outside of the medical system. Her dreams of wanting a physiological freebirth and believing she would NEVER go into the hospital system were very abruptly shattered when she found out about her baby's diagnosis. She then realized birth is not so black and white, we were able to discuss...

44. Birth Center Led Rachel to Choose Freebirth with her Second 17.03.2025

Rachel shares her experience with Birthing at a Birth Center and why she decided to go a different route with her next baby which was to have a Freebirth. *I want to be transparent in saying that I do not support or stand with the Free Birth Society. My values and approach to birth work differ greatly from theirs* 👇 Important Links + Resources ✨ Explore The Homebirth Vault – your all-in-one spac...

43. The Downsides of Social Media’s “Calm, Peaceful, and Pain-Free” Birth Narrative with Kelli 10.03.2025

In this episode of Empowered Births at Home I sit down with Kelly, a mom of four, birth doula, and birth photographer, to talk about her journey from hospital births to her first home birth in November 2024. While home birth is often portrayed on social media as calm, peaceful, and pain-free, Kelly’s experience was a reminder that birth is raw, intense, and deeply personal. She opens up about the...

42. Aly's Peaceful Homebirth Stories 03.03.2025

In this episode of Births at Home: The Podcast, I sit down with Aly McClain, a wife, mother, registered nurse, birth doula, and host of the Peaceful Homebirth podcast. Aly shares her transformative journey from a traumatic first birth, which resulted in an unplanned C-section and postpartum depression, to becoming a passionate advocate for home birth. 📌 Follow Aly on Instagram: ⁠https://www.insta...

41. Two Hospital Births to Two Freebirths - Alli Shares her Birth Wisdom 24.02.2025

In this episode of Births at Home: The Podcast, I sit down with Alli, a homeschooling mama of five from Northern California, as she shares her incredible journey from hospital births to freebirth. With a twin pregnancy, a past miscarriage, and the challenge of balancing birth with her husband's work schedule, Alli opens up about the emotional and mental preparation required to step into her po...

40. Season 3 - Midwifery Studies - Birth Mindset, an Essential to Birth Prep 17.02.2025

Season 3 Launch! A small chatty episode officially announcing my Midwifery studies and sharing about the importance of your birth mindset. *I want to be transparent in saying that I do not support or stand with the Free Birth Society. My values and approach to birth work differ greatly from theirs* 👇 Important Links + Resources ✨ Explore The Homebirth Vault – your all-in-one space for homebirth...

39. Homebirth Stories and Postpartum Care with Holly 20.01.2025

Holly shares her birth and postpartum journeys with us, from having her first at a birth center and a rough postpartum period to having her next two babies at home and learning so much about the importance of the postpartum period. 📌 Holly's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eat.mamameals/ 📌Holly's Website: ⁠ https://mama-meals.com/ Discount Code: BIRTHSATHOME 👇 Important Links + Res...

38. Tori's Unplanned First Homebirth and Planned Second Homebirth Stories 13.01.2025

Tori, author of Ready to Unpop, shares her unplanned homebirth story with her first baby and then follows by sharing her second babys planned homebirth. Stay until the end of the episode to hear all about her book, an amazing resource for all mamas! 📌 Tori's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bytorismith/ 📌 Tori's Website: ⁠ https://www.readytounpop.com/ 👇 Important Links + Resources...

37. Unplanned & Unassisted - Midwife Misses First Time Mom Brigitta's Birth 06.01.2025

Brigitta shares her homebirth story with us, she decided to have her first baby at home, hired a doula and midwife, however ended up having an accidental unassisted birth because her midwife missed the birth by a few minutes! 📌 Brigitta's Instagram: ⁠ https://www.instagram.com/the_dailyroses/⁠ 📌 Brigitta's Website: ⁠ https://thedailyroses.com/ ⁠👇 Important Links + Resources ✨ Explore T...

36. Freebirth is Just Birth - Jordan's Simple Freebirth Story 16.12.2024

Jordan shares about choosing a freebirth with her second after having a hospital birth with her first. *I want to be transparent in saying that I do not support or stand with the Free Birth Society. My values and approach to birth work differ greatly from theirs* 📌 Jordan's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seedsoflifeapothecary/ 📌 Jordan's Website: https://linktr.ee/seedsoflifeapothe...

35. Chelsea's Beautiful Homebirth After Cesarean Story - A Redemptive HBAC Story 09.12.2024

Chelsea shares with us her traumatic hospital birth and then her redemptive and beautiful homebirth after cesarean story. We also touch on intuition and postpartum. ⁠👇 Important Links + Resources ✨ Explore The Homebirth Vault – your all-in-one space for homebirth preparation: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://birthsathome.com/pages/the-homebirth-vault⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🎙️ Want to Share Your Homebirth Story on the Podcast? Fill...

34. Emily's Empowering Homebirth After Her First Being a Traumatic Homebirth Transfer 02.12.2024

Emily shares her empowering and redemptive homebirth story after her first birth experience being a traumatic homebirth transfer. ⁠👇 Important Links + Resources ✨ Explore The Homebirth Vault – your all-in-one space for homebirth preparation: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://birthsathome.com/pages/the-homebirth-vault⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🎙️ Want to Share Your Homebirth Story on the Podcast? Fill out the submission form here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠...

33. Shandy's Accidental Freebirth Story 18.11.2024

Shandy shares with us her story of going from having her first two babies in the hospital to having her last at home as an accidental freebirth. She then goes on to share how that experience has changed her as a woman and birth worker. 📌 Shandy's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/threelightsbirth/ ⁠👇 Important Links + Resources ✨ Explore The Homebirth Vault – your all-in-one space for ho...

32. Katrina's Powerful Homebirth Story 04.11.2024

Katrina shares with us a bit about her two births in the hospital and then goes into how social media influenced her in the best way to have a homebirth with her third. Her homebirth story embodies just how powerful we are as women. 📌 Katrina's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katrinakpatry/ ⁠👇 Important Links + Resources ✨ Explore The Homebirth Vault – your all-in-one space for homebir...

31. Kristi, Mother of 10, Shares Her Birth Stories Including Her Twins Birth at Home 28.10.2024

Kristi shares with us bits and pieces of all her births, from hospital births to birth center births, to home births. She even shares with us her twin homebirth story with one born in frank breech position. Krista also tells us about her book "What to Create When You're Creating" 📌 Kristi's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristi_the_healthifiedmother/ 📌 What to Create When...

30. Kendra Shares Her Redemptive and Healing VBAC Story 21.10.2024

Kendra shares her story of her first birth ending in a cesarean after going into labor early at 35 weeks and being risked out of the birth center where she was planning to give birth. She then tells us about her second birth which was a redemptive and healing VBAC. ⁠👇 Important Links + Resources ✨ Explore The Homebirth Vault – your all-in-one space for homebirth preparation: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://births...

29. Precipitous Births at Home - Chelsey's Homebirth Stories 14.10.2024

Chelsey shares her precipitous homebirth stories with us. Along with her journey from doula work to becoming a student midwife. 📌 Chelsey's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/supportingmamaswithbabies/ ⁠👇 Important Links + Resources ✨ Explore The Homebirth Vault – your all-in-one space for homebirth preparation: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://birthsathome.com/pages/the-homebirth-vault⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🎙️ Want to Sha...

28. Hannah's Homebirth Experience With Gestational Diabetes 07.10.2024

Hannah decided to take a different route with her third baby and her third time being diagnosed with gestational diabetes, she chose to birth at home. 📌 Hannah's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/you.are.my.sunshine.doula/ ⁠👇 Important Links + Resources ✨ Explore The Homebirth Vault – your all-in-one space for homebirth preparation: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://birthsathome.com/pages/the-homebirth-vaul...

27. RN Chooses Homebirth Over Giving Birth in the Hospital System 30.09.2024

Melissa, who worked as an RN for many years, chose to give birth outside of the system and gave birth to her second baby in the comfort of her own home. 📌 Melissa's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/homebirthernurse/ ⁠👇 Important Links + Resources ✨ Explore The Homebirth Vault – your all-in-one space for homebirth preparation: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://birthsathome.com/pages/the-homebirth-vault⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

26. Hedi's Military Base Homebirth After Cesarean 23.09.2024

Heidi shares her journey of choosing an HBAC as a mama who's family is in the military and stationed on base. After her first birth taking an unexpected turn from a natural birth center birth to a cesarean in the hospital, Heidi decided to take authority over her birth and have a VBAC at home. 📌 Heidi's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/outside.mama/ ⁠👇 Important Links + Resources ✨...

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